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Mon Apr 6 13:44:43 CEST 2020

In this unprecedented and delicate moment we are trying to do the next right thing.Thus we have decided to augment our online programing with new columns, livestream events, thematic content, stories from the archive, and special artist’s projects.We wish you good reading!
Nico Vascellari, In Dark Times We Must Dream With Open Eyes, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Mental Escape

Mental Escape is a series of live interviews exploring how the art world responds to today's challenges. Livestreamed from Flash Art's Instagram, Alexandre Stipanovich interview artists, curators, gallerists, critics, and collectors about their hopes, fears, doubts, visions, and projects they are betting on once the dust settles. Tune in every Monday and Friday at Noon EST – 6 pm CEST.
Our first livestream will be on Monday, April 6, with Miles Greenberg.Tune in on @flashartmagazine (https://www.instagram.com/flashartmagazine/?hl=en) Instagram!
Journey round my room
Urs Fischer, Madame Fisscher, 1999-2000. Hauser & Wirth Collection, Switzerland. Courtesy of the artist; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; and Palazzo Grassi, Venice.

Journey round my room (Voyage autour de ma chambre) is a novel by Xavier de Maistre, written between 1790 and 1794. The author wrote forty-two chapters during forty-two days of forced isolation in a room with a perimeter of thirty-six paces.
During this period of collective quarantine, Flash Art is asking artists, critics, curators, gallerists to offer a journey around their own room – to share ideas, thoughts, artworks, shadows, hidden drawers, recipes, refrigerator contents, secret projects and aspects of their humanity. Tune in on @flashartmagazine (https://www.instagram.com/flashartmagazine/?hl=en) Instagram to discover the series.
On View by Flash Art
Flash Art proposes virtual visits to current exhibitions in contemporary art spaces worldwide
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Alex Chaves, E, 2020. Paint on wood. 43 × 13 × 10 in. Courtesy of Martos Gallery, New York.

Alex Chaves “Oaks of Righteousness” Martos Gallery / New York

Chaves furthers his exploration of language with large-scale painted “E” sculptures reminiscent of the textiles and patterns in his paintings. The flattening of forms and the use of symbology continues in the gridded tennis court paintings. Chaves tends to focus on sites of intimacy and conflict, whether they be in the natural world, the battleground, or the bedroom.

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Flash Art Covers

The history of the magazine told by its founders Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova, through anecdotes on the most iconic covers.

“Julian Schnabel was one of our most strenuous meetings. Once we were outside his studio and he was speaking to us from a truck hanging on a crane. After many shouts we finally came into his studio. We made a beautiful interview, as never before. Then he came to Milan and he reviewed almost everything with the help of an editor, in our absence. The result was a press release. From that day we kindly started to hate each other.”    – Helena Kontova

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Listening In
A column dedicated to sound, music, and listening practices in contemporary art and its spaces
Peter Weibel, Chants of the Pluriverse, 1986-88. Courtesy of Peter Weibel.
>From poetry to Sound Art, Through performance
Join Benjamin Piekut in conversation with artist and theorist Peter Weibel, a pioneering figure in media art.

This section focuses on how listening practices are being investigated and reconfigured by artists working across disciplines in the twenty-first century.

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Dance Office
A column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance
Jacky Lansley, DANCE OBJECT REVISITED, 2020. Live performance at Cell Project Space, London. Courtesy of Cell Project Space, London.
X6 Dance Space (1976–80): Liberation Notes by Philomena Epps

“Liberation Notes” at London’s Cell Project Space is the first presentation of work from the X6 Collective, a countercultural dance movement that was active in Britain between 1976 and 1980, founded by Emilyn Claid, Maedée Duprès, Fergus Early, Jacky Lansley, and Mary Prestidge. Occupying a disused tea warehouse in Butler’s Wharf, on the south bank of the River Thames, the group initiated a collaborative and supportive environment — the X6 Dance Space — to teach, share, and perform experimental new work that stood in resistance to the work being produced by mainstream companies and institutions”. ⠀⠀

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Report
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Trials, 2020. Oil on canvas. 100 x 150 cm. Photography Nina Lieska. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town / Johannesburg. © Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi.
A Resilient Cape: South Africa's Thriving Art Scene Tackles COVID-19 and Lockdown by Rebecca Anne Proctor

Just over one month ago the city of Cape Town was roaring with art and promise. Foreigners flocked from around the globe to attend the eighth edition of Investec Cape Town (February 14–16) alongside the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale, the latter aiming to transform Stellenbosch into the primary destination for multidisciplinary and large-scale art in Africa.

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FLASH ART IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
Production still by Bruce LaBruce from his Erika Lust movie "Scotch Egg," model AJ Alexander, Barcelona, 2018. Courtesy of and © Bruce LaBruce.
Dune (@dunejournal (https://www.instagram.com/dunejournal/?hl=en) ) is an academic journal of fashion and visual culture, published by Flash Art and directed by Maria Luisa Frisa, with graphic design by Think Work Observe. Cover of Vol. 001 n. 001 by Bruce LaBruce.
Dune reflects the research interests, writing methods and theoretical production of a group working in the fashion department of the Iuav University of Venice. Each edition is characterized by a key theme and includes academic essays by international researchers.

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